Quotes About Perfectionism

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

He tore it out and sat down to write a message. Pen was almost to paper when he stalled, as if he'd had the perfect thing to say but it floated out of his mind like vanished smoke. Sighing, he itched with irritation.

Anyone who does not get enough rest and relaxation to enjoy life, who drives him/herself constantly, who is never satisfied or is a perfectionist, who is under constant pressure (especially with few outlets for emotional release), who feels trapped or helpless, who feels overwhelmed by repeated or continuous difficulties, or who has experienced severe or chronic emotional or physical trauma or illness is probably already suffering from some degree of adrenal fatigue.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.

I asked,' Sybilla said, 'because I have seen him like this before … once; when he elected to take everyone else's business in hand and return it to them correctly aligned, like an artist with a child's drawing.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

You often need to take a step back and think about what reality is, and what the world was like before Instagram - things weren't about perfecting something for an hour just for a photo.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

I am always picking on something or the other about the way I have performed a scene.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.